Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran
Author
Šmíd, Jiří
Author
Moravec, Jiří
Author
Kodym, Petr
Author
Kratochvíl, Lukáš
Author
Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian
Author
Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar
jirismd@gmail.com.
Author
Frynta, Daniel
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Zootaxa
2014
2014-08-20
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Asaccus griseonotus
Dixon & Anderson, 1973
HOLOTYPE
.
FMNH 170824
.
TYPE LOCALITY. 38.5 mi [=
62 km
] from Shahabad,
Kermanshah
,
Kermanshah Prov.
,
Iran
.
DISTRIBUTION.
Iraq
,
Iran
.
DISTRIBUTION IN
IRAN
.
Fig. 120
. Western foothills of the
Zagros Mountains
in
Kermanshah
,
Lorestan
,
Khuzestan
, and
Markazi Prov.
HABITAT. The
paratypes
in
Iraq
were collected in a humid cool cave (
Dixon & Anderson 1973
). In
Iran
it is known to live in dense oak forests at
1000-1200 m
elevation (
Parsa
et al.
2009
).
REMARKS. Closely related to
A. elisae
(
Papenfuss
et al.
2010
)
.
Phyllodactylus ingae
Eiselt
described from
Lorestan Prov.
is regarded as a younger synonym of
A. griseonotus
.
REFERENCES.
Dixon & Anderson (1973)
;
Anderson (1999)
; Rastegar-Pouyani (2006);
Parsa
et al.
(2009)
;
Papenfuss
et al.
(2010)
.